ICHNEUMON-FLIES, PART 1\ EPHIALTINAE 287 



abundant in the West, rather uncommon in the East. Adults occur 

 throughout the growing season. It is an important parasite of small 

 Lepidoptera feeding on the foliage or growing tips of trees and shrubs. 



2. Itoplectis conquisitor (Say) 



Figure 325,j 



Cryptus conquisitor Say, 1836, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 232 (Leconte 

 ed., vol. 2, p. 689); ? . Type: 9 , Indiana (destroyed). 



Cryptus pleurivinctus Say, 1836, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 235 (Leconte 

 ed., vol. 2, p. 691); d\ 9 • Types: d\ 9, Maryland (destroyed). 



Pimpla pictipes Walsh, 1873, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 3, p. 137; d\ 9 • 

 Name preoccupied. Types: d\ 9 , ?Illinois (destroyed in Chicago fire of 

 1871). 



Pimpla walshii Dalla Torre, 1901, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 3, p. 454. 

 New name for Pimpla pictipes Walsh. 



Ephialtes (Itoplectis) temnopleuris Cushman, 1920, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 58, p. 347; 9 • Type: 9 , United States (Washington). 



Biology: Gorham, 1847, Comm. Rev. South and West, vol. 3, pp. 539-541. — 

 Brackett, 1865, Pract. Ent., vol. 1, p. 19. — Comstock, 1879, Report upon 

 Cotton Insects . . . , pp. 198-200.— Riley, 1886, Rep. U. S. Dep. Agr. 

 Ent. Coram., no. 4, pp. 111-113.— Weed and Fiske, 1900, Bull. U. S. Dep. 

 Agr., Div. Ent., no. 26, pp. 33-34.— Weed, 1900, Bull. N. H. Agr. Exp. Sta., 

 no. 75, p. 123.— Fiske, 1903, Tech. Bull. N. H. Agr. Exp. Sta., no. 6, pp. 187- 

 198.— Smith, 1907, Ann. Rep. N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta., no. 28, p. 419.— Howard 

 and Fiske, 1911, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., no. 91, pp. 137, 138, 144, 

 147-149, 238.— Johnston, 1913, Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 6, pp. 144-147.— 

 Baird, 1918, Agr. Gaz. Canada, vol. 5, pp. 770-771. — Cushman, 1920, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 347; 1926, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 28, p. 41; 1927, Journ. Agr. Res., vol. 34, p. 619.— Griddle, 1924, Ann. 

 Rep. Ent. Soc. Ontario, no. 54, pp. 17-18. — Schedl, 1931, Zeitschr. Angew. 

 Ent., vol. 18, pp. 258-260.— Crowell, 1932, Psyche, vol. 39, p. 102— Schaff- 

 ner and Griswold, 1934, Misc. Pub. U. S. Dep. Agr , no. 188, p. 142.— 

 Daviault, 1935, Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 62, pp. 245, 318, 319.— Haden, 

 1935, Bull. Univ. Del. Agr. Exp. Sta., no. 194, pp. 20-35.— Doner, 1936, 

 Ann. Ent. Soc. America, vol. 29, p. 228. — Balduf, 1937, Proc. Ent. Soc, 

 Washington, vol. 39, p. 173.— Twinn, 1938, Ann. Rep. Ent. Soc. Ontario, 

 vol. 69, p. 131.— Townes, 1939, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, vol. 34, p. 29; 

 1940, Ann. Ent. Soc. America, vol. 33, pp. 286, 316. 



Front wing 3.5 to 12.5 mm. long; temple rather weakly convex, 

 about 0.62 as long as eye; face moderately wide; flagellum weakly 

 enlarged apically, the sixth segment from the apex about 1.5 as long 

 as wide; punctures on mesoscutum and mesopleurum of moderate 

 size and strength; notaulus absent; propodeum short, its median 

 longitudinal carinae extending about 0.3 its length; front tarsal claws 

 of female with a large, broad, postmedian tooth; third tergite about 

 1.0 as long as wide in male, about 0.63 as long as wide in female; 

 fourth and fifth tergites of male polished and with widely separated 

 punctures (these tergites more or less mat andjwitll close punctures 

 in both sexes of the other Nearctic species) ; tergites 2-7 with rather 



